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How to spell bird

hear itbird/bɜrd/nounStarter

What it means: A flying animal with feathers.

In a sentence: The bird sang a beautiful song in the morning.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as berd or burd.

Same family: birds, birdie, birdhouse, birdwatcher. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Bird comes from Old English “brid,” which originally meant a young bird or chick before it became the general word for all birds in modern English.

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